'Gay' worm shuts down Italian senate PCs

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A worm containing pictures of gay pornography forced the
shutdown of the Italian senate computer system, parliamentary
officials said on Tuesday.

The virus attack began late on Monday, and came several days
following the firing of an assistant to the upper house's vice
president, after images of him attending a homosexual party in Rome
surfaced.

The worm slipped by the anti-virus software at the chamber, and
computer technicians shut off most of the senate's computers,
officials said.

An operation was then begun to clean the worm from the infected
machines.